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"How did you even knohere to find us?" I whispered

He shrugged, a tad dis fixed on the entrance of the whirlpool "Youkept in the upper layers… I asked around for you When I didn’t find you in any of the ponds, I guessed that you iven all your talk of escape For this is the only exit frolanced at uessed that this was the only exit Entering the houls led only one way: down, down and further down, into the bowels of their hell

I ary of asking any more questions of my uncle--I’d already spoken far more than I was comfortable with Still, I couldn’t help but continue to stare at hie of heart His venturing up here hy I hadn’t seen hio now Perhaps he’d left the pool and had been trying to find his way back up to the higher levels I wouldn’t have been surprised if it had taken hiiven the state he’d been in

I’d thought that when I left him he would sink back into his madness, but here he was, more aware than ever I even detected what I believed was the coldness of the old Lucas coht indifference to his de at hihts--further de his awareness "I suppose I"--he averted his eyes to the ground--"was thinking about what you said about h he’d lost his voice for a moment "If there’s even a s to give it another try Because… I would very much like to see my son Even if he can’t seeh adiven the havoc he’d wreaked on our island, the novelty earing off fast

I continued to drop in on hie of heart, but when he remained as clammed up as ever, it was time to set Plan B in motion

I waited for Ibrahiht--I had told hi that I needed From the look on the warlock’s face as he arrived, it appeared that he had already guessed what I was about to propose

"It’s tirimly

"You’re sure there’s no other way?" he asked, not bothering to hide the doubt in his voice

I nodded "Believe ed "All right When do you want to do this?"

"Tonight," I replied without thinking "Now"

Ibrahiet him then"

Ibrahi to his office, where, in the drawer of his desk, was an innocent-looking pencil case--within which was so out this whole affair with Ibrahi, I’d asked the warlock if there was any e could actually implant the truth in Jeramiah’s uessed there was no way to trulyeven with thethe facts so vividly in histhat I had done the very best that I could to co in his fantasy world, then good riddance to him But while there was still room for me to strive harder, I would with all that I had

Ibrahi tiive people visions, he said that it was nothing cohoul… A rather unpleasant breed of supernatural we’d already had theacross I had experienced for myself their powers of mind manipulation To this day, I still shuddered whenever I recalled the scene I’d believed I witnessed down by the Port Kiev and Sofia, wrapped in each other’s ar a passionate kiss beneath the ht Other residents’Mona’s Mona had even gone so far as to abandon Kiev and our island because of her conviction in what she thought she’d seen The work of that ghoul, Silas, had been mere illusions, but Ibrahim informed me that they could also inject real h the another one of those nasty creatures onto the island, it see to be our best option Ibrahim offered to pay a visit to the realm of the white witches, The Sanctuary, where they were known to keep ghouls as servants Ever since Rose had saved one of the Ageless’ sisters fros with the white witches They were no longer the enemies they once were and I was quite sure that they would do us a favor and lend us one of their ghoul serfs

So Ibrahi pencil case Within it was supposedly a ghoul I was extre if there was any way that the ghoul could escape before it was tih our island, but Ibrahihouls under control and even when out of the box, this particular ghoul ell trained Herbert The nalish butler in a tailcoat I would have shter mood As soon as ere done with him, Ibrahim would return him to The Sanctuary